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Bush Raises Private Funds for Iraq Rebuilding: $600

by Last Night in Little Rock

Everyone is well aware of President Bush's fundraising capabilities when it is for buying access to or owning government, or some nitwit rich horse judger getting a crucial job at the Federal Emergency Mismanagement Agency of the Department of Homeland Insecurity.

President Bush tried to raise private funds for the rebuilding of Iraq, and put out a plea to the "public." According to the UK Independent, he raised $600.

An extraordinary appeal to Americans from the Bush administration for money to help pay for the reconstruction of Iraq has raised only $600 (£337), The Observer has learnt. Yet since the appeal was launched earlier this month, donations to rebuild New Orleans have attracted hundreds of millions of dollars.

The public's reluctance to contribute much more than the cost of two iPods to the administration's attempt to offer citizens 'a further stake in building a free and prosperous Iraq' has been seized on by critics as evidence of growing ambivalence over that country.

This coincides with concern over the increasing cost of the war. More than $30 billion has been appropriated for the reconstruction. Initially, America's overseas aid agency, USaid, expected it to cost taxpayers no more than $1.7bn, but it is now asking the public if they want to contribute even more.

With Katrina and Rita, private funding for Iraq obviously takes a back seat. We "had" to destroy it, so shouldn't we rebuild it? Do we owe that to the Iraq.

That would make sense, but his administration's response to Katrina made him look like the guy whose uninsured million dollar house burned down because he decided to spend $20 on a movie rather than the fire extinguisher that could have saved the house, but sat in the lawn chair watching the fire and didn't even call 911 or go after the garden hose.

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    C'mon wingnuts, here's your chance to put your money where your pieholes are. Ante up! Or are you with the terrrarrists?

    Re: Bush Raises Private Funds for Iraq Rebuilding: (none / 0) (#2)
    by aw on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:04:19 PM EST
    Helloo? Where is everybody? PPJ? JR?

    Re: Bush Raises Private Funds for Iraq Rebuilding: (none / 0) (#3)
    by kdog on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:04:19 PM EST
    I guess raising private funds is better than continuosly piling on the deficit. But what are these private donations really buying?

    Re: Bush Raises Private Funds for Iraq Rebuilding: (none / 0) (#4)
    by Edger on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:04:19 PM EST
    But what are these private donations really buying? Keep the Oval Office bar well stocked?

    Re: Bush Raises Private Funds for Iraq Rebuilding: (none / 0) (#5)
    by kdog on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:04:19 PM EST
    $600...What does that buy, a case of Halliburton soda?

    $600 buys you 3/5ths of a Halliburton Green-Zone blast wall. [Locally-produced, unrest reducing employment producing, blast walls, to spec, $250.] That's a better deal than 50,000 of the deployed soldiers got, with their 0/5ths of Kevlar body armor. Oh well, you screw over the troops you can dragoon, right Donald? The total was $666. Bush stole $66 to buy some gitar strings.

    Re: Bush Raises Private Funds for Iraq Rebuilding: (none / 0) (#7)
    by Edger on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:04:22 PM EST
    kdog: $600...What does that buy, a case of Halliburton soda? Lysol? Listerine? Shoe polish, maybe? Wouldn't get enough Ripple to last very long...

    That's OK, edger -- it's enough to get him started. He can hit his neighbor over the head and steal his, later.

    Re: Bush Raises Private Funds for Iraq Rebuilding: (none / 0) (#9)
    by Edger on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:04:23 PM EST
    Paul: He can hit his neighbor over the head and steal his, later. Already has, hasn't he? ;-)

    Re: Bush Raises Private Funds for Iraq Rebuilding: (none / 0) (#10)
    by Edger on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:04:23 PM EST